He Burned Her Face for Giving Birth to Daughters, Help Zakira Get Life-Saving Surgery

‘I woke up to a burning hell. My skin was melting, my eye felt like it had been ripped out, and my daughters were screaming. My husband stood there, watching me in pain…as if he had won.The acid burned my skin, but society’s words burned my soul. I was the one attacked. I am the one suffering. And yet, people whisper that I must have ‘done something’ to provoke him. As if I deserved this.’- Zakira, acid attack survivor. 

In 2017, as Zakira slept peacefully next to her two daughters, her husband - a man she had spent 9 years with - threw acid on her face. Her crime in her husband’s eyes? She gave birth to daughters instead of a son. 

He wanted a son but when that didn’t happen, he burned me alive with acid

From the moment their second daughter was born, the abuse escalated. ‘He would throw my makeup, scream at me for looking ‘beautiful’ to others, and hit me on the streets to humiliate me.’ When he started mistreating their daughters, Zakira had enough. 

She dared to escape the torture he put her through for years - beatings, humiliation, fractured bones, and endless threats. She dared to fight for herself and her daughters. She wanted to file for divorce, hoping to finally break free.That decision cost her everything.

Instead of setting her free, he wanted to make sure no one else would ever look at her again.

My 5-year old daughter saw her own father turn into a monster that night

Zakira’s husband wanted her destroyed. Not just in body, but in spirit. The acid attack burned away her face, her earholes melted shut, and she lost one eye. Third-degree burns covered her back and arms, leaving her in unbearable pain even today.

But in his cruelty, he didn’t just destroy Zakira. He shattered their five-year-old daughter’s world.

"I was in the hospital for months. The pain was worse than death. My daughters - my babies - saw me like that. My younger one, only 5 years old, saw her father do this to me and testified against him in the court. Imagine the trauma she is going to carry for the rest of her life. She still blames herself for not stopping him. She was just a child… what could she have done?"

No child should have to live with a memory like this. But Zakira’s daughter does.

I lost my face. I lost my eye. I lost everything.

Zakira has endured unimaginable pain for eight years, but her daughters keep her going. She needs urgent surgeries—face reconstruction, earlobe surgery, and burn treatment—costing ₹30 lakhs. Struggling to put food on the table, affording treatment feels impossible for Zakira. 

“All I ask for is a chance—to work, to stop hiding, to give my daughters a better life.”

Every rupee, every share can help her heal. Stand with Zakira.